Saturday, May 23, 2009

My Picture Book Gallery

Before I put up my regular post this weekend, I want to refer you to an annotated Listmania list that I’ve posted on Amazon (and just updated by adding Bob Graham’s How to Heal a Broken Wing) called Simply Beautiful Picture Books. Fuse #8’s wonderful Top 100 Picture Books of All Time poll reminded me that many of you, like me, are over-the-moon in love with children’s books. (That would be the moon from Goodnight Moon, of course.) While I come from the writing side of things, I feel my picture book collection is also the equivalent of an art gallery. This list is my homage to some of that tremble-inducing beauty!

ABOUT ME

I am madly in love with children's books and want to get great books into the hands of kids who will love them, too. Books are like magnifying glasses, intensifying the wonders of people and their imaginations and everything in the world from spiders to shoelaces. Books are a unique sort of conversation. I write them, too, mostly MG fantasy, but sometimes poetry and picture books. Thank you, Johanes Gutenberg!